REGION: Jail realignment forum set

RIVERSIDE ---- Riverside County officials have scheduled a forum
for Monday in Riverside to discuss how the new policy of sending
many new inmates to county jails instead of state prisons will
affect the region.

The forum is scheduled to take place from 9 a.m. to noon in the
first-floor auditorium at the County Administrative Center, 4080
Lemon St.

Among those scheduled to speak are
Riverside
County Supervisor John Tavaglione
, Chief Probation Officer Alan
Crogan, Sheriff Stan Sniff, District Attorney Paul Zellerbach and
an official with the California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation.

The inmate shift is being brought about by
Assembly Bill 109
, which was signed into law in the
spring.

The so-called realignment policy calls for people who are
sentenced after Oct. 1 for nonviolent crimes that aren't of a
sexual nature to be sent to county jails instead of state prisons
---- as they have been in the past.